Equipment for an Undergraduate Field Station Laboratory to Provide On-Site Instruction in Terrestrial and Aquatic Ecology.

生物系非常幸运，拥有一块300英亩的土地， 车站位于主校区20英里内。 现场站 包含许多不同的陆地和水生栖息地： 草原和森林，池塘和河流。 位于现场站的是一个 实验室大楼由一位常驻的自然学家组成。 外地和 通过该奖项提供的实验室设备正在使这一领域 车站自给自足，功能更加齐全。 新的现场设备包括土壤和水测试包; 实验室设备包括显微镜、天平、干燥箱和 用于数据存储和分析的微型计算机。 由于车站已经 拥有充足的宿舍空间，增设了设备齐全的 实验室允许学生生活和进行有意义的研究， 绝佳的价钱 装备齐全的空间站实验室在 一月的期中学期，学生可以在 深入 在驻地工作人员和两位博士的指导下， 生物系的生态学家，野外站现在能够 高度引进大量本科生 生态学研究方法的研究。

The Biology Department is unusually fortunate in owning a 300-acre field station located within 20 miles of the main campus. The field station contains a number of different terrestrial and aquatic habitats: prairies and forest, ponds and river. Located at the field station is a laboratory building staffed by a resident naturalist. The field and laboratory equipment provided through this award are making this field station self-sufficient and more fully functional. The new field equipment includes soil and water test kits; the laboratory equipment includes microscopes, balances, drying ovens, and a microcomputer for data storage and analysis. Since the station already has adequate dormitory space, the addition of a fully equipped laboratory allows students to live and conduct meaningful research on site. The equipped station laboratory is particularly valuable during the January interim term when students may study a single topic in depth. With guidance from the resident staff and from the two Ph.D. ecologists on the Biology faculty, the field station now is able to introduce substantial numbers of undergraduates to a high degree of sophistication in studying ecological research methods.